Faculty and Staff

Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director of Pontchartrain Institute

GP 1046 
504-280-1373 
igeorgio@uno.edu

Earth Surface Processes, Coastal/Estuarine Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport, Delta morphodynamics, Sediment dynamics at Barrier Islands and inlets

Mark A. Kulp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

GP 1029 
504-280-1170 
mkulp@uno.edu

Coastal Stratigraphy, sedimentology, coastal geomorphology, coastal restoration

Alex McCorquodale, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng.
FMI Professor for Environmental Modeling, Civil and Environmental Engineering

CERM 315 
504-280-6074 
jmccorqu@uno.edu

Physical and numerical modeling in environmental hydraulics, Settling tank hydrodynamics, Lake and river hydrodynamics, Transport of contaminated sediments, fluvial morphodynamics

Martin T. O'Connell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

GP 1008 
504-280-4032 
moconnel@uno.edu

Fish ecology, aquatic ecology, fisheries management, invasive species

Denise J. Reed, Ph.D. 
Professor of Research GRATIS

GP 1058
504-280-7389 
djreed@uno.edu

William Stein III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Research

CERM 353 
504-280-1182 
wstein1@uno.edu

Estuarine fish and decapod communities, water movement in the Pontchartrain Estuary, Lionfish, Cobia, Warsaw Grouper on the Louisiana coast, and the life history of Tarpon in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Patricia M. Williams, Ph.D., DABT
Assistant Professor Research

CERM 312 
504-280-5543 
pmwilli3@uno.edu

Jessica Gaudin
Assistant to the Director

CERM 351 
504-280-4020 
jlheber4@uno.edu

Finance and accounting, bookkeeping, business management

Dinah Maygarden, M.A.
Research Associate, Science Education Program Director

CERM 352 
504-280-1374 
dmaygard@uno.edu

K-12 science education, teacher science education

Michael Brown
Research Associate

GP 1020G 
504-280-1360 
mabrown@uno.edu

Field support group, operations and maintenance

Meg O’Connell
Research Associate

GP 1007 
504-280-4037 
auzeeoco@uno.edu

Aquatic Sciences, experimental and applied statistics for fishery science